On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:13:50 -0500, "jeeva" wrote:

>I recently bought a sony trv27 minidv camecorder and this is my first
>camecorder too.
>
>The video quality is very good when I see it through LCD, however its very
>bad when I watch it on TV (connected the camecorder with S-Video cable). The
>video was very dark in the TV (light green came out as dark green, some
>images were blured out).
>
>I tried the same with my friend old analog camera and very thing came
>perfect.
>
>Is this the problem with digital to analog converstion? Or some problem with
>the settings? Or problem with the camera?

The LCD is not a good reference, since its brightness
can be set over a wide range, with no "standard" setting.
If you exposed the original image in manual mode using
the LCD as a guide, wrong exposure is likely. If your
TV looks good with a wide range of broadcast material,
try hooking up the camera to the TV directly (with
sound down, or not connected...), and see if, in auto
exposure mode, the exposure (while "looking" around the
room with the video camera) looks good on the TV. If so,
adjust the LCD and eyepiece finders to best match the TV
picture. If not, and you are in auto mode, something is
likely wrong... BTW, the LCD is close to useless for all
but rough framing outside. Use the eyepiece finder
instead, and learn the differences between it and
"correct", so you can use it as a guide for exposure and
color (auto settings are likely to be better, though,
but with the daylight white balance preset used when outside...).